Multiple contour extraction from graylevel images using an artificial neural network

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 892-899

  Venkatesh, Y V ^a,b   Raja, S Kumar ^b   Ramya, N ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Active contour models (ACMs); Contour extraction; Edge detection; Self organizing map (SOM); Snakes; Time adaptive self organizing map (TASOM)

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELS (ACMS); CONTOUR EXTRACTION; TIME ADAPTIVE SELF ORGANIZING MAP (TASOM);

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33645154988     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.863934     Document Type: Article

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